Solution

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There are three tree-level Feynman diagrams: two ordered fermion-exchange diagrams and one s-channel gauge boson exchange diagram. Write the outgoing labels as and .
Figure 1.
Original tree-level Feynman diagrams for fermion and antifermion annihilation into two non-Abelian gauge bosons: two ordered exchanges and the three-boson annihilation channel
. Details.
Following the fermion flow from to , the first diagram emits boson 1 and then boson 2; its internal four-momentum is and its ordered colour factor is . The second emits boson 2 and then boson 1, giving and . The third annihilates into one virtual gauge boson of four-momentum and uses the three-boson interaction vertex. There is no two-fermion two-boson contact interaction vertex for the minimally coupled Dirac field, and no tree ghost contribution with these external states.

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